2013-2015 Socialist Party Platform: on Free Trade

We oppose the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization as instruments of oppression throughout the world.

We call for the reassessment of all international trade negotiations in light of workers’, farmers’, consumers’, and environmental interests.

Source: (X-ref Foreign Policy) Socialist Party Platform Jan 1, 2000

So-called fair trade is meaningless as long as the world economy is dominated by a few massive corporations.

We demand the immediate withdrawal of the United States from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), and oppose the creation of a widened Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).
We oppose the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization as instruments of capitalist oppression throughout the world.
We demand cancellation of Third World debt.

Source: Socialist Party USA: 2013-2015 National Platform Nov 4, 2014

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